--- Little Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DF wrote: "Should I have read farther back into the > archives. Is it normally this > Insensitive around here." > > > I think the matter may be more about > hyper-sensitivity rather than insensitivity. With a > list this size, people are going to occasionally > step on one another's toes since we are here to > DISCUSS, meaning that opinions of all shapes, sizes > and colours are flying back and forth.
I do remember the first time I joined this list, there was some kind of flame-war/discussion/disagreement (call it what you will because it's mostly a matter of perspective) going on at the time. I don't remember what it was about. Maybe (likely) there were several different, erm, discussions going on at the same time. Between that and the masses of posts that arrive some days (there were about 150 when I signed in tonight and I still have about 50 left to read but I think I'll have to save that for tomorrow) I ended up unsubscribing within a day or two, because it scared me right off. I signed on again about a year after that and for some reason, it didn't bother me this time. I think the list goes through these periods when people argue back and forth about things. If it gets too much (esp. the political stuff) I usually just delete a bunch without reading them. In fact, usually if I see 150 posts in my inbox, I just sort them by subject and delete anything with subject headers that appear to be political or something I'm not terribly interested in (like sports); perhaps deleting a few treasures in the process, but what canya do? Sometimes I don't even understand what the hell people are talking about, so I just let those slide. Sometimes I learn things about other people and about myself by reading people's views on things I might not even have thought of before. On the other hand, sometimes I just don't give a rat's ass! All in all, this is a good bunch of people but it's like family - sometimes there are fights, but deep down, you gotta love 'em. P.S. If you really want to piss someone on this list off, tell them they're too sensitive ;) ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
